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  1. Re:The elders of the internet on Publisher Is Pretty Sure Google Could End Piracy (techdirt.com) · · Score: 2

    I think I heard that they already do dowrank piracy. You get results when you are obviously searching for piracy, but otherwise you don't. Example: Typing in, simply, a movie title will never get you piracy results.

  2. Re:Google is the internet! on Publisher Is Pretty Sure Google Could End Piracy (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder is Microsoft/IE did/does get contacted by people telling them to take things off the Internet.

  3. Summarize The Article on Publisher Is Pretty Sure Google Could End Piracy (techdirt.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Just summarize the article. We don't need to be told what to think by some anon

  4. Re:Paper on Kindle or Not, a Resurgence In Used Bookstores · · Score: 1

    But for how much longer? They have already developed the ink designed to make book text fade after the first reading.

  5. Re:These Republican-ruled corporations... on Steam: No "Unauthorized Actions" On Exposed Accounts · · Score: 2

    Gabe Newell is a known democrat.

  6. Representative Democracy on Ask Slashdot: We've Had Online Voting; Why Not Continuous Voting? (iamnotanumber.org) · · Score: 1

    We do not have a representative democrat because the technical hurdles of a direct democracy are too big. We have a representative democracy so that we can limit the direct influence of the populous to try and create a fairly and better run system. And to separate political power of the populous from the decision making power of government.

    A pitchfork wielding mob is the direct democracy equivalent to our justice system. This system is not more just, or better run, just because the people are directly responsible for the decision making.

    And even leaving the whole, that is just a horrible system you propose aside for a second. You are not even thinking the necessary infrastructure through. Not only do you need a way for everyone to vote, you need a way to inform the populous of the issues. Nothing could ever be classified ever again, all citizens would need to take classes in economics, etc., And we would need some sort of information delivery system so that the populous all reads the same reports that politicians used to.

  7. So much wrong with this post on Does the Internet Spur Social Change, Or Lazy Activism? (usc.edu) · · Score: 1

    and groups of a certain size are heard by lawmakers

    Ya, every FB group with a thousands members is well known to lawmakers /sarcasm. Lawmakers have no idea about any FB group, it does not matter if they have a million members, or one. If you want lawmakers to hear you, you actually have to attempt to be heard (and we known single people are more than capable of doing this quite well if they have enough drive).

    hacktivism is growing in popularity as well

    Ya, and DDOSing Trumps website, and threatening ISIS did so much good.

  8. I Never Really Understood that Prediction Thing on Why String Theory Is Not Science (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    It worked great when we really did not understand anything about the Universe. But now when quite a lot is already known, there is a hell of a to less you can predict. Like all the current accepted theories, they predicted things, but now their predictions are just known facts, so if someone come up with the theory of tectonic plates today, it could never be a science, as all predictions you can make with the theory are already known facts. It just seems wrong, that if a prediction is not made in time, then an entire branch of what could of been science, is now a pseudo science that can never really be proven.

  9. Re:Seems pretty reasonable on German Court Orders Man To Destroy Naked Images of Ex-Partner (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Being a porn actor is not really comparable to making a private sex tape / taking risque photos, which is what everyone has been talking about until now,

  10. Re:Security has not kept pace with technology on Man Arrested For Hacking 130 Celebrities (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    No celebrities have ever done anything but benefit from leaked sex videos and naked pictures.

  11. Re:"A language of their choice" on College Board Mainstreams AP Computer Science (collegeboard.org) · · Score: 2

    Yes, but even more important is making sure everyone understands the fundamentals. I maintain it would of been far easier to teach me the fundamentals of garbage managements if it was done before I learnt all the high level algorithums and such. In my academic career, we were taught Java, then sorting, trees, and all the other main algorithms and data structures, and programming paradigms, then assembly, then finally C++. The last thing I learned, well after we left practical programming long behind, was garbage collection and pointers. Having not had to worry about the practical side of programming for years at that point, it was gruelling. And I still do not get it, really.

  12. Re:NullNotLearningAboutPointersException on College Board Mainstreams AP Computer Science (collegeboard.org) · · Score: 1

    Because, you do not learn about pointers in Java. In Java, all of that is taken care of for you, just like you do not explicitly handle garbage collection in java, in java you do not deal with the different between pointers to data and data, you just use variables and let the language figure out how to store it.

  13. Re:Jurisprudence on German Court Orders Man To Destroy Naked Images of Ex-Partner (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    In Germany it is actually illegal to deny the holocaust, so any German is legally bound to say the same thing. If I came to Germany, I would be legally bound to as well.

  14. Re:Jurisprudence on German Court Orders Man To Destroy Naked Images of Ex-Partner (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Its the same court, not the same individual judges and lawyers.

  15. Re:Seems pretty reasonable on German Court Orders Man To Destroy Naked Images of Ex-Partner (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I will say this much, lots of people are bloody stupid and don't understand that they absolutely should not consent to having photos taken of them in the nude or in sexual congress unless they've fully considered both the ramifications of how they feel about those pictures potentially being seen by absolutely everyone and how this could impact their lives down the road, but that's the choice of the subject that willfully puts themselves into that position.

    I don't understand why everyone says this. People have made their fame and fortune because of sextapes. What is the worse that has ever happened because of one? I would not consider a sex tape to be a highly suspect decision that should basically never happen, and a risque photo is nothing that has ever caused anyone any trouble. Most people get nude photos taken of them, hell I don't think any amount of money would get miley cyrus to put some cloths on.

  16. Re:Jurisprudence on German Court Orders Man To Destroy Naked Images of Ex-Partner (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    it's still illegal to murder people

    This same German court decided that it's not if you are Jewish. I have as much respect for this ruling as for that one.

    This isn't a blanket card for someone to withdraw consent as within your example of consenting to a nude painting class; presumably in your instance you signed a waiver to your rights, and the court order does not apply in that situation.

    That is exactly what it is, just because there is one restriction on its application, does not change that. And there would of been little reason for anyone to get that waiver, as previously not getting one still entitled the photographer to total and complete ownership of their pictures.

  17. This Was Always The Case on TSA Body Scanner Opt-out No Longer Guaranteed (slashgear.com) · · Score: 1

    The rule was always just for the general pop, who were not currently undergoing extra screening. The TSA can pump your stomach on a whim and a suspicion, they can strip search you, they can destroy your property, they can detain you, of course they can compel you to walk through a scanner.

  18. Re:There are US DHS at London Gatwick?? on US Stops British Muslim Family From Boarding Flight To Visit Disneyland (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Not really strange at all. If they wanted to make an arrest, or just get them in for questioning. Telling them OK, come board, is a perfect way to make sure they can be approached and apprehended without a gun battle. If they are serious terrorist, like the US apparently thinks, they could very well be ready for the government to storm their abode (and would not be planning to let they take them alive and without bloodshed). They last terrorist group had stockpiles of guns, ammo, and explosives. A siege of that house would of went bad very quickly.

  19. How do they Regularly Pay for It? on Internet Archive Hosts 24-Hour Fund-Raising Telethon (archive.org) · · Score: 1

    I have to assume this will bring in peanuts. The Internet Archive not only hosts a backup of the entire internet, they host a backup with multiple chronological versions of the internet. I always assumed they must have backers with some huge pockets. How do they normally pay for stuff, and does this fund raising imply that they could be having financial difficulties?

  20. Re:Enough of this on White House Expected To Announce Big Computer Science Push · · Score: 1

    Well of course it is set by the state, the state is employing the teachers. Who else would set the salary? But this number is invariably going to be influenced by their being a glut of poor teachers vs less teachers then the number of posts. And it will be influenced by their general of quality, highly educated and skilled teachers will demand and deserve higher salaries, eventually leading to the salaries being set higher.

  21. Re:Enough of this on White House Expected To Announce Big Computer Science Push · · Score: 1

    You are looking at it backwards, there are way to many people training to become teachers, so the pay is bad because of too much supply. But then, this low pay and competition can drive out the good teachers.

    People don't think ahead enough for the pay to increase or decrease the number of teachers produced

  22. Re:I am the computer teacher at my Middle School on White House Expected To Announce Big Computer Science Push · · Score: 1

    Don't blame the teachers.

    But a lot of the problems you lay out are the fault of the teachers, if the district actually had consistently good CS teachers, they would not be trying to dumb down to such a huge degree. They are forced too by CS teachers who do not even try to teach, and do not even know how to program themselves. The problem is that before university, teachers do not even need to have knowledge of what they are teaching, it is assumed any gym teacher can get themselves up to date with CS and teach a class in it, the reality is that most are either unwilling or unable to do this.

    And CS is a new subject, even now there are very few teachers who understand OO or any programming paradigm, and were taught with assembly language on a punch card system. And these are the good teachers, most are just teachers who needed to teach an extra class to get full time pay, and picked up the only one available.

  23. Re:Accident type is relevant on The Humans Crashing Into Driverless Cars are Exposing a Key Flaw (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    legal no-fault has nothing to do with insurance no-fault. All no-fault accidents I know of, increase insurance cost drastically.

  24. Re:Not an Infraction on The Humans Crashing Into Driverless Cars are Exposing a Key Flaw (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    From the article "good luck trying to merge onto a chaotic, jam-packed highway". It states that these cars primarily get into more accidents because they are unwilling to accommodate the traffic they are merging into, and refuse to match their speed. Instead the driverless cars are forced to swerve out into traffic that is going significantly faster than they are.

    And never did I state that by speeding up I meant, maxing your odometer. Primarily, you would speed up to match other's speeds, aka not 200 mph in a 50 mph zone.

  25. Re:Accident type is relevant on The Humans Crashing Into Driverless Cars are Exposing a Key Flaw (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Insurance for driver less cars will go up.